Abstract
"Nothing is "perfect" even the
so called perfect tenses"
The present perfect tense is
particularly confusing for learners of English as a foreign language from
various angles. All the English tenses describe actions in relation to the time
of their happening or their position in the sequence of events in the past, the
present or the future. Only the present perfect tense doesn't really seem to
abide by this rule. It is vague for speakers of other languages as it describes
actions or events as having happened before the moment of speaking and no more
details after that.
Because it is vague, the present
perfect needs too many details to make itself comprehensible and all those
details have to be taken into consideration for authentic natural communication.
Teaching the tense to speakers of other languages has to be approached
carefully. This paper will try to present one way for teaching this tense with
almost all its features.
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